WEST POINT, Ga., Sep 28, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Knology, Inc. (Nasdaq: KNOL) today announced that it has obtained consent from its lenders to amend its credit facility. Pursuant to the amendment, certain term loan lenders have extended by two years the maturity date of an aggregate $397 million of term loans. The extended term debt will mature on June 30, 2014, and will bear an interest rate of LIBOR + 3.50%, with no LIBOR floor provisions. The amendment also, among other modifications, increases the revolving credit facility to $35 million from $25 million and allows for an annual, cumulative restricted payment allowance of $10 million for dividends and/or share repurchases utilizing excess cash flow and subject to a maximum leverage test.
M. Todd Holt, President and Chief Financial Officer of Knology, Inc. stated, "We are pleased with the outcome of this amendment to extend a significant amount of our term loan maturities. The current credit and interest rate environment allows us to better manage our balance sheet on a longer term basis, while at the same time improve the already healthy free cash flow profile of the business in the years to come."
About Knology
Knology Inc., headquartered in West Point, Georgia, is a leading provider of interactive communications and entertainment services in the Southeast and in the South Dakota region. Knology serves both residential and business customers with one of the most technologically advanced broadband networks in the country. Innovative offerings include over 200 channels of digital cable TV, local and long distance digital telephone service with the latest enhanced voice messaging features, and high-speed Internet access, which enables consumers to quickly download video, audio and graphic files using a cable modem. Knology's fiber-based business products include iPlex, which delivers Ethernet connections to an IP-PBX using Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) technology, Passive Optical Network (PON), which supplies IP architecture with segmented voice and data bandwidth, and Managed Integrated Network Solutions (MATRIX), an integrated IP-based technology which converges data and voice. For more information, please visit www.knology.com.
Information about Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are subject to future events, risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. In addition, our revenues and earnings and our ability to achieve our planned business objectives are subject to a number of factors that make estimates of future operating results uncertain, including, without limitation, (1) that we will not retain or grow our customer base, (2) that we will fail to be competitive with existing and new competitors, (3) that we will not adequately respond to technological developments that impact our industry and markets, (4) that needed financing will not be available to us if and as needed, (5) that a significant change in the growth rate of the overall U.S. economy will occur such that there is a material impact on consumer and corporate spending, (6) that we will not be able to complete future acquisitions, that we may have difficulties integrating acquired businesses, or that the cost of such integration will be greater than we expect, and (7) that some other unforeseen difficulties occur, as well as those risks set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, and our other filings with the SEC. This list is intended to identify only certain of the principal factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements included herein. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements relating to expectations about future results or events are based upon information available to us as of today's date, and we do not assume any obligation to update any of these statements, except as required by law.
SOURCE: Knology, Inc.
Knology, Inc. M. Todd Holt, President and Chief Financial Officer, 706-645-8752 todd.holt@knology.com
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